I Would Have Been Happier If All My Children Came From One Woman-2Face Idibia

Nigerian musical legend who turns 40 on the 18th of September in a chit-chat with Yes Magazine told of how he wishes all his seven children were from one woman. Excerpts:

One sumptuous thing that nearly everybody talks about is your humility in spite of how much God has blessed and elevated you, how did you cultivate that?

(Laughs) – Well, for me, I will attribute that to my parents; the way they brought me up. They brought me up to know that look, everybody is important. So, even when we were young, even if we had a house help in the house, my parents dey let me know say dis one self na person, dat I still need to wash my CLOTHES by myself. The househelp na just basically for some things wey mumsy no get power to do. No be say na slave or anything. So, na dat respect for people. That’s how my parents brought me up.

If you had not grabbed the mic to sing, what else would have been doing?

You know like I said, me and music, it wasn’t a co-incidence. So, I have never, never thought of doing anything else. But there was ONE point in time that I was really, really into football and na goal keeper I be dat time. So, I been dey think am say if music no work, I go just enter football just turn to goal keeper peacefully (Laughs).

Do you have any regret about some of the things that you did, but shouldn’t have done?

Okay! Em….I learn from anything that happens; I learn from it and you know ONE thing about life – it’s that once something has happened, it has happened. So, I am not the type that regrets. I mean, there are some things that I wish they never happened, but I learnt from them, so…

Can you be specific?

Em…I didn’t plan for me to have kids from different women. But it’s happened and I’m just taking it the way it is. But if you ask me what I wish, I will say ah, I for like make all of dem (children) come from ONE person. Yes!